Feminist daughters with military fathers : the forgotten legacy of rural Berber men / Fatima Sadiqi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadiqi, Fatima, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Morocco.

Feminism.

Feminists--Family relationships--Morocco.

Feminists.

Berbers--Morocco--Social conditions--History--20th century.

Berbers.

Soldiers--Family relationships--Morocco.

Soldiers.

Children of military personnel--Morocco.

Children of military personnel.

French--Morocco--History--20th century.

French.

History, Military.

History.

Soldiers--Family relationships.

Social conditions.

Feminists--Family relationships.

Morocco--History, Military--20th century.

Morocco.

Physical Description:

xi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton : The Red Sea Press, [2021]

Summary:

This book is a tribute to the memory of my father Mouhamd ou Lahcen (around 1919-2005), a rural, illiterate, self-made Berber man who served in the French army before joining the Moroccan army after independence in 1956. In addition to my and my family’s recollections, I interviewed twenty-five Moroccan women of my generation whose fathers were in the military and who are now feminist leaders in various fields. In so doing I seek to both honor the memory of my father and his generation of military rural Berber men, and draw attention to the forgotten role of these men in opening the door of education to the second generation of Moroccan feminists. Marginalized in both the colonial and Moroccan narratives, as well as in the Moroccan feminist discourses, the legacy of these men deserves recognition in the social history of modern Morocco.-- from jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781569027356

1569027358

9781569027349

156902734X

OCLC:

1240492706